In a message dated 01/12/00 04:16:12 GMT Standard Time, [email protected] writes: << Does anyone have other information on this...?? Is this a valid use of recycled granite grave markers in Germany/ Europe...?? >> Hi Mary Certainly not in the U.K. The thought is extremely distasteful to me. Most of our old church cemeteries have the stones over the grave site but where, for some reason, they need to move the memorials, the stones are placed upright around the cemetery walls. Even where a church falls into disuse and is scheduled for re-development, the bodies and the stones are removed to another site and re-interred. This has me thinking of a town in Germany/Austria?? where I visited a charnel house to be astonished to see many skulls displayed, all with the name of the deceased painted on them and some with other decorations. Anyone know where this is? I really should keep a journal! There is, I know, a famous catacomb beneath a church in Oldenburg/Old where there are many skeletons in orderly piles. Now you have me determined to find out what happened to bodies in the U.K. before about 1600 which seems to be the earliest date I can remember seeing. That is, apart from the elaborate tombs of the rich and famous inside the churches. The most spectacular one where I live is of a lord known as the wrestling baronet who is depicted in a wrestling stance. No! not the kind of wrestling/acting seen on television! His style was known as the 'Cornish hug' Why am I suddenly tempted to burst into song? Dem bones, dem bones, dem dry bones TTFN Jack In the land of Robin Hood